Trusting Trump Part 2

All things to all men

Two days after 9/11 Trump was put in front of TV cameras to make comments that reinforced the official story. Speaking of the demolition of the twin towers he said,

“It's tremendous power and tremendous heat....Tremendous amounts of fuel that was (sic) dumped in the building and 1600 degree temperature. I guess that was more than anything could take, no matter what.”

This followed his opinion given on the day of the attack, when, after boasting, “now it's the tallest,” of his downtown Manhattan building, he said of the collapse of the twin towers,“Well, it was an architectural defect,” before calling to mind the World Trade Center bomb attack of 1993.

“You know the World Trade Center was always known as a very, very, strong building. Don't forget that took a big bomb in the basement (in 1993). Now the basement is the most vulnerable place cuz that's your foundation and it withstood that…and I got to see that area about three or four days after it took place because one of my Structural Engineers actually took me for a tour, because he did the building, and I said 'I can't believe it.' The building was standing solid and half of the columns were blown out.”

Speaking of the 9/11 event he continued,

“I said how could a plane, even a 767 or 747 or whatever it might have been, how could it possibly go through this steel? I happen to think that they had not only a plane but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously cuz I just can't imagine anything being able to go through that wall.”

As on most days, on 9/11 the news media put figures in front of the public to lead public thought. Within a couple of hours former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak appeared on the BBC to implicate Osama Bin Laden. He advocated “a globally concerted effort led by the United States…against all sources of terror,” that he called a, “war against terror,” and warned viewers that travel would become “more complicated.” Near to the World Trade Centre at least one person presented as a witness planted the official narrative in a street interview under the watchful eyes of men in black.

In Trump’s 9/11 contribution he introduced the idea of the twin towers having an “architectural defect,” along with the notion that the planes could not have penetrated the building, and he described 9/11 suspect Larry Silverstein as “a terrific owner in New York and a very good friend of mine.”

As Trump said, Larry Silverstein had just bought the World Trade Center and was fortunate to have avoided harm by missing his usual breakfast there. His run of luck continued as a court agreed with his contention that the WTC had been subject to two terrorist attacks, thus generating an insurance payout of $4.5 billion for the property he had bought a few weeks before 9/11, for $115 million.

In subsequent years Trump went on to make a series of 9/11 related claims including repeatedly stating that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attacks and that he saw “thousands of muslims,” celebrate them in New Jersey.

What Trump could have seen was TV stations report a group in Palestine apparently celebrating the attacks, but it was later explained that they had been asked by a TV crew to appear happy for a reward of cake, and denied awareness of the breaking news. People definitively seen celebrating in New Jersey were Israeli Mossad agents “sent to document the event.” Trump also stated that the alleged hijackers' wives were flown out after 9/11, when it was actually the Bin Laden family who were permitted to travel when all other flights were grounded.

Trump went on to call for a ban on muslims entering the US and later, using a revealing choice of words, asked on live television, "Who blew up the world trade center? It wasn't the Iraqis, it was Saudi."

There also appears to be no evidence to support Trump’s claim made since September 13th, 2001 that he provided “hundreds of men,” to support the rescue and clear-up effort.

This scatter gun approach to information in which the truth, lies, and everything in between are hit indiscriminately has become something of Trump's modus operandi. If it is true that people hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see, he can be all things to all men. It also means that when he does give voice to an important truth many people dismiss it because he has the credibility of the boy who cried wolf. As his biographer D’Antonio surmised in 2017,

“I think that if the truth is not congenial to him, he has no regard for it. So when he thought the election was going against him, it was rigged. And then when he won, of course it wasn’t rigged. It’s all situational; there’s no inner commitment to anything factual.”

This was made plain in his comments about Hillary Clinton. Consistently complimentary towards her before the 2016 election campaign, he then described her as, “unbalanced,” “unstable,” and “unhinged,” and, “a bigot who sees people of colour only as votes not as human beings.”

In a televised debate of October of 2016 when Clinton said that, "it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country." Trump replied: "Because you’d be in jail."

By 20^th January 2017, when the pantomime of the election was over, Trump used his Inauguration Day luncheon speech, to say,

“I was honored when I heard that former president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton were coming today.” He then applauded them before adding, “and honestly there's nothing more I can say because I have a lot of respect for those two people.”

Speaking in Michigan after being elected, Trump said to supporters who booed his mention of the Clintons, “No, it's OK. No. Forget it. That plays great before the election. Now we don't care, right?”

He now claims never to have said that Hilary Clinton should be locked up, despite video footage of numerous examples of him doing so, or using words to that effect.

Similarly, Trump linked vaccines to autism in 2015, before contradictorally launching Operation Warp Speed to inject as many people as possible as quickly as possible. He later boasted of the investment in the covid injections as a, “calculated risk,” although they were presented to the American public as 'safe and effective,' and continue to be presented as such by Trump, who claims they saved “not only our country but large portions of the world,” and describes them as a medical “miracle.”

In April 2024, Trump declared “I'd even take Biden over (Robert F Kennedy) Junior.” describing RFK as a “radical left lunatic,” and saying “No Republican should vote for this guy,” adding, “His views on vaccines are fake as is everything else about his candidacy.”

By June 2024, during a supposedly leaked phone call with RFK Jr, Trump had reversed his position, saying, “Something’s wrong with that whole [vaccine] system.”

In August 2024 Trump had accepted RFK's endorsement and spoke of him as a, “brilliant guy,” and said he would consider giving him a position in his administration.

Trump then promised to release the files on the assassination of John F Kennedy, a commitment he made before his first Presidency, when he also promised, “You will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center.” He broke both these promises and more.

For his part, RFK encouraged the notion of Trump being misled when he wrote in his book The Real Anthony Fauci, that,

“Based on Dr. Fauci’s representation, President Trump purchased the world’s entire stock of remdesivir for Americans.” Remdesivir is considered to be a drug that, “may have unnecessarily killed up to 500,000 Americans in hospitals,” who were forced on to killer protocols, many of whose deaths were misattributed to the alleged novel coronavirus.

“Dr. McCullough gives us a stark and clear summary: “Remdesivir has two problems. First, it doesn’t work. Second, it is toxic and it kills people.””

In 2018, Bill Gates played into the notion of Trump as being under his influence: ‘He asked me if vaccines weren’t a bad thing..he was considering a commission to look into ill effects of vaccines..Robert Kennedy Jr was advising him vaccines were causing bad things..I said no that’s a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don’t do that.’

Yet as RFK notes, though Trump gave the public appearance of rejecting the direction of Gates and the WHO,

“When President Trump withdrew the United States from WHO in 2020, he continued the US contribution of $1.16 billion to GAVI. The cumulative effect, therefore, of the withdrawal was to increase Gates’s power over WHO and over global health policy.”

Part 3 is here.